Re: [gentoo-devhelp] Cannot get build directory in multilib ebuild

[Andrew Savchenko]

Hi!

On Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:58:10 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> I need to install a file that the package generates in its build
> directory. It's a cmake project. I tried:
>
>    doins "${BUILD_DIR}/some_file"
>
> But it doesn't find the file:
>
>    FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/some_file'
>
> The ebuild inherits cmake-multilib. There's two build directories of
> course, since this is a multilib ebuild:
>
>    package-version-abi_x86_32.x86
>    package-version-abi_x86_64.amd64
>
>
> I'm interested in the native build directory (the amd64 one in this
> case.) Is there a variable somewhere that I'm just not finding, or do I
> have to construct the build directory path myself?

Try something like (not tested):

install_files() {
    multilib_is_native_abi && doins "${BUILD_DIR}/some_file"
}

multilib_foreach_abi install_files


Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko